Cremnoceramus
| Cremnoceramus Temporal range: Turonian-Maastrichtian ~ | |
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| Cremnoceramus deformis in early Turonian Fort Hays limestone, showing characteristic wavy rugae. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pteriida |
| Family: | †Inoceramidae |
| Genus: | †Cremnoceramus Cox, 1969 (posthumous) |
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Cremnoceramus ("cremno-" = kremnos [Greek]: precipice or over hanging wall or bank; "ceramus" = keramos [Greek]: clay pot) is an extinct genus of fossil marine pteriomorphian bivalves that superficially resembled the related winged pearly oysters of the extant genus Pteria. They lived from the Turonian to the Maastrichtian of the Late Cretaceous.
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